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Saudi PIF builds U.S. sports role with backing for women’s golf

The move comes amid ongoing tensions in men’s professional golf, where efforts to merge the PGA Tour and PIF-backed LIV Golf remain stalled

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US golfer Harold Varner III plays in 2023 LIV Golf tournament in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will back a U.S. women’s golf event for the first time on the LPGA Tour when the Aramco Championship is held in Las Vegas this coming April.

The sovereign wealth fund said it will...